John Cena & Eric André’s Netflix Comedy Overstays Its Welcome
I really wanted to like Little Brother. The new Netflix comedy from director Matt Spicer takes John Cena and Eric André, two comedic performers I have appreciated on screen in the past, and unites them via an easy-to-sell premise: A…
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‘Minions & Monsters’ Is the Slapstick Madness This Franchise Should’ve Been All Along
What if I told you there was a big Universal movie coming out in theaters this month, starring Oscar winners and all-time greats like Christoph Waltz and Jeff Bridges, telling a story about the fantastical history of Hollywood's golden age?…
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Prime Video’s ‘Legally Blonde’ Prequel ‘Elle’ Fails to Match the Original Movie’s Charm
25 years ago, the world was introduced to the sweetest, most wholesome sorority-girl-turned-Harvard-law-student in Legally Blonde. Iconically played by Reese Witherspoon, Elle Woods is virtually impossible not to like. She's exuberantly positive, kind-hearted, and can be doggedly determined if she…
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Growing Up Without Leaving Play Behind
There is a certain risk that comes with making a fifth Toy Story film. Every entry since the original has carried the weight of feeling like a conclusion, only to find another meaningful place to go. After the bittersweet farewell…
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Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
NOW ON HBO! When James Kaminsky and Kate “Kitty” Kaminsky welcomed their son Melvin Kaminsky on June 28th, 1926, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, nobody could have predicted that he would become a comedy legend. Growing up…
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Samara Weaving & Kyle Gallner Bring A Wounded Spark To Adam Rehmeier’s Twangy Crime Romance
There is a long, bruised tradition of lovers-on-the-run movies, stories where romance and danger blur until neither half of the equation can survive without the other. “Carolina Caroline” knows that lineage well, but filmmaker Adam Rehmeier’s film finds its own…
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The Mandalorian and Grogu Review
It’s been seven years since The Rise of Skywalker left the Star Wars saga on a divisive note. As Star Wars fumbled on the cinematic front, a new hope arose on Disney+ with The Mandalorian, reminding audiences why they fell in…
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Milly Alcock Gives Us the Best Version of the DC Superhero To Date
When Milly Alcock's Kara Zor-El first stumbled into the Fortress of Solitude at the end of Superman, she was unlike any other version of Supergirl we've seen on screen. She drunkenly crashed into the fortress, giggling while getting tossed around…
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Folk Time-Travel Mystery Is Exquisitely Haunting
The experience of watching a Mark Jenkin film is defined by specificity. The Cornish filmmaker not only writes and directs his projects, but acts as cinematographer, editor, sound designer, and composer, and his signature in all those roles is remarkably…
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Spielberg’s Curiosity Outpaces His Story
Disclosure Day follows Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City television meteorologist, and Dr. Daniel Kellner, a cybersecurity expert working for a secretive government organization known as WARDEX. When long-hidden information regarding extraterrestrial life begins to surface, the pair find themselves caught…
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HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’ Begins Its Penultimate Act With an Explosive Season 3 Premiere
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for House of the Dragon Season 3's premiere. Long waits for new seasons of hit shows are common, especially ones as ambitious and large-scale as House of the Dragon, but it's rare that lengthy…
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Steven Spielberg’s Awe-Struck Existential Thriller Finds Wonder In The Burden Of Cosmic Truth
A world on edge is already coming apart: divided, unstable, on the brink of war, and seemingly one revelation away from collapse. In that combustible atmosphere, a buried secret threatens to shatter the global order or set humanity free. This…
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